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Over the years, I have witnessed various story-pointing techniques. Some were better than others. I have come up with a system that works pretty well, and I want to share it with you. I hope you find it helpful.

Over the years I've often come across situations in which the team delivered a more complicated final product than necessary or desirable. Using Scrum, however, we uncover these misunderstandings much earlier -- and avoid them.